On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Carl Beckhorn cbeckhorn@fastmail.fm wrote:
I expect that any site with as many active editors as English Wikipedia should have good statistical data about members - age, sex, race, nationality, and income distributions, among other things. Where can I find these statistics for English Wikipedia? I expect the Foundation has at some point retained an independent polling firm to obtain this data, right?
- Carl
Soon. The Foundation is planning a global survey of contributors and readers[0], set to be released to the public soon. (It is currently being translated.[1])
[0]http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/UNU_survey_agreement [1]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/General_Survey_Translation